Who Will Win 2016 Ballon D’Or Award (Predictions)

This is the time of the year when discussion about who will win “Ballon d’Or” begins and FranceFootball has already revealed the shortlist of 30 men who will be contesting for this year’s title. The 2016 Ballon Dor award will revert back to the orignal Ballon d’Or after they terminated their contract with FIFA and from now on it will only be known as Ballon d’Or. Unlike the previous 5 years where the winner was decided with the help of votes from national team coaches and captain, from now on only respected pool of football journalists will vote for this prestigious award.

ceremony will be taking place on Monday, 09 January 2017 and there won’t be any 3-man shortlist before the winner is announced.

Who Will Win The 2016 FIFA Ballon D’or Award ?

It is highly likely that Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez will make the shortlist for the FIFA Ballon Dor award and rightly so. Ronaldo dominated the 2015-16 season scoring 51 goals and guiding Real Madrid to Champions League success while played integral part in Portugal’s Euro 2016 win. He is bookies favorite to win his fourth Ballon Dor award after yet another landmark season.

Messi and Suarez guided Barcelona to another league and cup double where Suarez finished as La Liga top scorer while Messi ended up player of the tournament in Copa America 2016.

Guidelines for Ballon d’Ord Award: here are some of the guidelines defined by FranceFootball magazine for the Ballon d’Or award.

Respected football Journalists will take part in the voting (most of journalists will be from major football countries like France, Germany, England and Spain.

FranceFootball will only announced the 30-man shortlist and there won’t be any 3-man shortlist. The eventual winner will be announced in December 2016.

The scoring system will remain the same as every journalist will pick top three in preference order where first pick get 5 points, 2nd pick 3 and the third gets 1 point..

When Ballon d’Or Ceremony Will Take Place ?

Unlike the FIFA ceremonies, Ballon d’Od ceremony will take place in December 2016 and there won’t be any massive ceremony before the winner is announced . See Also: Ballon D’or 2016 Ceremony details

Here is the shortlist of possible 30 players set to be announced for the Ballon D’or Award 2016.

FIFA BALLON DOR 2016 – NOMINEES (Confirmed)

NO#

DEFENDERS & KEEPRS

MIDFIELDERS

FORWARDS

1

Manuel Neuer (GK)

Arturo Vidal

Jamie Vardy

2

Rui Patricio (GK)

Paul Pogba

Luis Suarez

3

Gianluigi Buffon (GK)

Dimitri Payet

Sergio Aguero

4

Hugo Lloris (GK)

Luka Modric

Neymar

5

Sergio Ramos

Riyad Mahrez

Thomas Muller

6

Diego Godín

Toni Kroos

Lionel Messi

7

Pepe

Koke

Robert Lewandowski

8

Andres Iniesta

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

9

Kevin De Bruyne

Gonzalo Higuain

10

Gareth Bale

Antoine Griezmann

11

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo

12

Aubameyang

If we looks at the results of last year’s Ballon Dor voting, Messi won his 5th award with 41.33% votes while Ronaldo finished second with 27.76%. While there was not much to choose from in rest of the pack and we can expect similar results this season..

Let me know your thoughts by commenting below “who is going to win this year and why ?”. Please avoid any bad language or your comments won’t be published. Some of the comments below are from last year’s award results.

Cristinao ronaldo & neymar are the favourates….
both were
briiliant in the whole year,,,, ronaldo scored goals in both UCL simi
finals, neymar scored 2 goals in 2nd leg of simifinal of UCL &
scored goal in final… ronaldo was best in euro qualifiers & UCL
2016-17 with 10 goals ,, neymar was best in la liga
…..
lewandowski or thomas.muller should in the 3rd position ,,, both were great in international & club level
….
messi did great job but he failed in final & 1 group game of COPA & was injured for 8 weaks

Katalizatori

r u fcking seruous

Katalizatori

wtf r u talking , r u serious

Eyal Avoth

Neymar deserves a welcome to the top tier of world football. He is the top man this year.

sudhan

Ronaldo will win it…

Ayer.Fernando_

Yhu is trippin bruh ?✌

rocko

messi… iss n alwayz be de name…..

Jatin Jain

Its a personal achievement award which is balon do’r and by every margin cr7 should win also he single handly brought portugal in euro

Raul Valencia

U really think ronaldo win the the ballon d or, ur crazy, its abviously messi, he wuz the better man in the 2014/15 season and ronaldo under poor managment, he won nothing, the trophy is all about the 2014/15 season, and try to remeber wit ronaldo won there

Jatin Jain

It is not about tropies its about individual performance of player in 2014-15 and stats says that Ronaldo is way ahead of Messi in goals and just 1 assist behind of Messi

Aiden Pearce

from above stats i dont see ronaldo ahead of messi.

mapfungi

Jatin jain are yu crazy?where are yu getting yo stats

kajus

Messi is above Ronaldo:)

Nimra Rehman

CR7 all the way

fazil

ronnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllldddo

Harry Bayley

Messi has to win, he’s won 5 trophies, Ronaldo has won none and on top of that he scored so many goals and got so many assist, ballon d’or isnt all about goals guys that’s the only reason you think Ronaldo should win it.

Stephen Mckenna

It’s an individual award mate has nothing to do with trophies, if that’s the case and it is about trophies why not give the ballon d’or (an individual award) to the Barcelona team

Robert Nava

I can gurantee that Messi will win it!

دودو كوامي

messi

Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo single handedly brought Portugal to euro, while Lionel Messi had a full team of footballers helping him. Ronaldo is a constant one man show at Madrid and the best in the world! The difference between ronaldo and messi is that messi has a full team if valuable players while ronaldo is a team of one yet he continues to be the best!

Bee

It’s because Ronald is self, look when another players scores he doesn’t celebrate as much as Messi when another player scores so man get real with Ronald it’s all about me and not any other player. It’s not that messi has good players but it’s because he lets other players be part of the team

Unaiz Ohzin

CR 7 cristiano ronaldo CR 7

Armah G Kiadii

MESSI GOING TO WIN THE FIFA BALLON D’OR 2015/ 2016 TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

Xzodia Unltd

Lionel Messi

Misini Salajdin

messi is the best messi ist de4r beste in welt

Misini Salajdin

messiiiiiiiiii the best

sudheesh

ronadoooooooooooooooooo the best

Z016

ronaldo scored 61 goals from November 22 2014 to Nov 2015, messi had 58. Ballon d or is individual award, so ronaldo should win but if they change their policy like teamwork comes first then messi should. Either way I don’t care cos soon RONALDO and MESSI will be gone and when they retire, that’s it no more…that time will come but I’m not watching them play anymore cos I seen enough N btw I’m not a football fan but used to like watching messi n ronaldo when I was a younger n someone told me ballon d or on 11th

ganeshraja

ronaldo …………………………….. he is best

mohwanda wilson

messi is definetly going to win this year because he is more outstanding than ronaldo and messi is a team player while ronaldo isn’t am going to tell you a example why i said all of this when messi,neymar& saurez if messi get one goal in the match he is going to look out for neymar and saurez to score i guranteed when ronaldo playing he wouldn’t mind he scored all the goal them thats is the reason why barcelona is a better team than real madrid in terms of team playing.

mohwanda wilson

messi is the better playing ronaldo lost am not a one-sided person because i rate ronaldo the same way i rate messi but is just who put in more team effort which messi show and ronaldo doesn’t and just to bare in mind people’s balon dor is about the amount of goal scored it is issued for the best outstanding person which is definetly messi this year

Qasim Toor

Robaldo ?

Ashutosh Prasain

mEssi

will win it…

Mohamednur Ibrahim

Messi

Cletus Udo

Ronaldo is the best

Ratnadeep

messi messi messi..,.his games against man city and bayern in CL were a spectacle..

RESULTS ARE LONG in Congratulations Messi, NEYMAR and Ronaldo for an outstanding performance and Messi the five time Ballon D’Or champion marking it down as of today January 11th, Nevertheless My support will always be with all footballers but I give my higly utmost Respect To NEYMAR Jr. Who is on his way to the top with Messi and Ronaldo and Will be the next , emerging Ballon D’Or winner. #Congratulations-Nxt2017.

illiara

Where is De gea??

DUTCH

I know in soccer RONALDO is king but Messi is Messiah or simply GOD of football

Omar Elmansuri

at least we know messi isnt winning it this year lol!

QUZO SWURO

only messi only messi…ronaldo win euro cup by cheering his teamates….but messi lost copa because of luck…his team were just outstanding. its not about winning trophys but their performance…n bla bla

Ajy2j

See the match between Portugal and Hungary 3-3 in uefa euro 2016 group stage… And guess who kept Portugal in the cup run with 2 gem of goals…. After checking it, don’t forget to f*** yourself!!!

Respect Our Values

One match performance. Did he score the 3 goals?

pegger1

You’re ignoring that Ronaldo also won Champions league and was leading scorer there. No question Messi is a great player but performance wise he didn’t even come close to Ronaldo this past year.

Prince Ali Abbasi

ronaldo ids the best he deserves
the 4th ballon d’or

Kenny

Lol the bs, Messi didn’t end as the best player of the tournament, Alexis Sanchez did

Anyone know why Hazard’s on the list? Do the judges just make one wild card place for a random decent footballer whose stunk the entire year?

Aykroyd

someone give me a good breakdown of why ronaldo? i get that he was apart of the portugal win but let’s be real that was not the best run and then he wasn’t even in the final.

all this messi vs ronaldo shit is getting old.

he doesn’t have the resume yet perhaps but…at this point i’d like to see neymar win it just to spite all the ronaldo/messi freaks, dude is on fire and getting more ridiculous every game.

BeIgianWaffle

You forgot the ‘N’ between ‘U’ and ‘T’

This is Berber flag

cr7

Mario

Stupid to debate this. Obvious ronaldo will win it not a fan lf both but seems ronaldo will win this time. Messi fan boys are really annoying, cancer of football take barca and messi dick out your asses and mouth messi was great but ronaldo got the uper hand especially during the euro as where messi lost copa america final then quit the national team.

Justin Lykunov

Ronaldo scores useless goals. 51 goals in la liga but no La liga trophy. Ronaldo couldn’t score in the CL final and was useless throughout the final (anyone can score a penalty..) Portugal got VERY lucky winning the tournament and had no help in the final because of a injury. Ronaldo winning? Eh.. no. I back Suarez.

Shojayath Baloch

Messi Messi Messi messi messi

Mohammed Hamza

Ronaldo wining best player of Europe 2016
Real Madrid won UEFA champions League 2015 to 2016
Real Madrid won super Cup
CR7 scored some of the best and helful goals ..

Barcelona lost Champions League
Messi in captaincy lost 4 cupa america finals
Gave retirement
Got Booodddd ! by fans ..
Let down his fans

figure your self out whos more worthy for Balla’dor

and even if CR7 loses this tropy hes still the king and will be <3
#CR7 <3
halamadrid

i dnt think ronaldo deserve this year coz he didnt hav much to do in euro though his team won the cup
messi had a gr8 year breaking so many records
but at the end if we see antoine griezman had a very imp role leading his national team and club team to finals and played really well 4 both he deserve it

Respect Our Values

Messi has scored, directly assisted and created more goals than Ronaldo from November 2015 to November 2016. He has also won trophies. Individually, he plays better than Ronaldo. Messi played better and scored more goals in Copa America than Ronaldo did at the Euro. Messi did his best in the final and lost, but Ronaldo did nothing in the final and his team won. Ronaldo was not the only player who won Champions league and Euro 2016, Pepe did too. Ballon D’Or should be won by the best individual performer for the year, and that is Messi.

Respect Our Values

Messi has scored, directly assisted and created more goals than Ronaldo from November 2015 to November 2016. He has also won trophies. Individually, he plays better than Ronaldo. Messi played better and scored more goals in Copa America than Ronaldo did at the Euro. Messi did his best in the final and lost, but Ronaldo did nothing in the final and his team won. Ronaldo was not the only player who won Champions league and Euro 2016, Pepe did too. Ballon D’Or should be won by the best individual performer for the year, and that is Messi.

Madridista4eva

There aren’t any words to describe how disappointing it is not to have seen certain footballers on the same team as other footballers obviously this is only regarding the best and most amazing players for example imagine ronaldinho had the work ethic of CR7 or Messi we deserved 8 years more dinho. Getting to my specific dream that didn’t happen in football hands down is not seeing R9 play a full career healthy . The injury was so bad and to see it happen to your favourite ever 🙁 I know lots of people recognize how good he was which is best #9 to ever play the game. R9 and CR7 firing on all cylinders with Bale just giving full backs nightmares with his speed That falling apart enabled MSN to get called the best attacking trident and I can’t argue even if I’m Real but no diss here cuz they are snipers no matter what but R9 CR7 Bale would open a slaughterhouse